Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

London's old-school healing garden.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.